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The Definitive Guide to HTML & CSS--Fully Updated
Written by a Web development expert, the fifth edition of this trusted resource has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to address HTML5, the revolutionary new Web standard. The book covers all the elements supported in today's Web browsers--from the standard (X)HTML tags to the archaic and proprietary tags that may be encountered.
HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition contains full details on CSS 2.1 as well as every proprietary and emerging CSS3 property currently supported. Annotated examples of correct markup and style show you how to use all of these technologies to build impressive Web pages. Helpful appendixes cover the syntax of character entities, fonts, colors, and URLs. This comprehensive reference is an essential tool for professional Web developers.
- Master transitional HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 markup
- Write emerging standards-based markup with HTML5
- Enhance presentation with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1 and CSS 2.1)
- Learn proprietary and emerging CSS3 features
- Learn how to read (X)HTML document type definitions (DTDs)
- Apply everything in an open standards-focused fashion
Thomas A. Powell is president of PINT, Inc. (pint.com), a nationally recognized Web agency. He developed the Web Publishing Certificate program for the University of California, San Diego Extension and is an instructor for the Computer Science Department at UCSD. He is the author of the previous bestselling editions of this book and Ajax: The Complete Reference, and co-author of JavaScript: The Complete Reference.
About the Author
Thomas A. Powell is president of PINT, Inc., a Web development and design firm. He developed the Web Publishing Certificate program for UCSD Extension and is an instructor for the Computer Science Department at UCSD. He is the author of the previous bestselling editions of this book and Ajax: The Complete Reference.
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Depending on what you want to use the book for, this book will make you extremely happy or very sad! If you are a beginner then, you need to get yourself one of those books that assumes no prior coding knowledge on your part. It does not do a good job of holding you by the hand in your learning of (X)HTML from scratch! However if you are an intermediate or an Advanced HTML coder or just comfortable with the language, then this book is heaven-sent. It describes all (X)HTML and CSS elements in sufficient detail as well as other related things e.g you will not need to traverse the internet for information on MIME types, Doc types etc. It's like having a complete reference on your table, but hold on, is this statement not redundant? Well it is because the book actually says it's a Reference and it does JUST that. However, it's not like a dictionary where words are merely listed with short description. The book is exhaustive in it's explanations of the elements. So you will find detailed explanations of DIVS and SPANS with adquate code snippets complete with doc types,that helps show you the results in a browser window, the code is available on the supporting website.
The style is perfect in that you are given all possible values of an attribute. For instance, the CSS positioning element is presented the way it should be written (correct syntax)with all the semi colons and curly brackets in the right places and ALL posible values, separated by the pipe keybord character, so if you are unsure of the correct syntacx of an element while you are coding, you can quickly find out what values are possible or available for a particular element.
There is as much XHTML and CSS 1.0, 2.0, 2.1 as there are HTML 5 and CSS 3! So if you want to start playing with the web's bleeding technology, this book covers everything. Another handy feature is that it tells you EXACTLY under which specification a particular element falls, where it's defined in for instance both CSS 2.0 and CSS 2.1, and that's not all, it goes ahead and shows you in which browser down to browser version supports it, plus all the proprietary elements, e.g those introduced by Mozilla!
My Verdict: If you are confortable with HTML and CSS, you need NOT be a pro, this book will be your companion, so that you can QUICKLY check the correct syntax of the form tag or the legend tag or even the troublesome CSS pseudo class selector (with all POSSIBLE values). Plus you need not fire your browser to search for imformation on the Parse tree. This is an excellent book, but you may give it a single star if you are purchasing it to lift you from zero HTML to Pro!
The style is perfect in that you are given all possible values of an attribute. For instance, the CSS positioning element is presented the way it should be written (correct syntax)with all the semi colons and curly brackets in the right places and ALL posible values, separated by the pipe keybord character, so if you are unsure of the correct syntacx of an element while you are coding, you can quickly find out what values are possible or available for a particular element.
There is as much XHTML and CSS 1.0, 2.0, 2.1 as there are HTML 5 and CSS 3! So if you want to start playing with the web's bleeding technology, this book covers everything. Another handy feature is that it tells you EXACTLY under which specification a particular element falls, where it's defined in for instance both CSS 2.0 and CSS 2.1, and that's not all, it goes ahead and shows you in which browser down to browser version supports it, plus all the proprietary elements, e.g those introduced by Mozilla!
My Verdict: If you are confortable with HTML and CSS, you need NOT be a pro, this book will be your companion, so that you can QUICKLY check the correct syntax of the form tag or the legend tag or even the troublesome CSS pseudo class selector (with all POSSIBLE values). Plus you need not fire your browser to search for imformation on the Parse tree. This is an excellent book, but you may give it a single star if you are purchasing it to lift you from zero HTML to Pro!
Format:Paperback
The content in this book is OK, probably worth three to four stars, but as other reviews have noted, it's incredibly frustrating to try and use as a reference.
There are 294 pages for the HTML tag reference, if you open the book anywhere within this reference section the left and right page headers have the text "Part I: Core Markup" and "Chapter 2: HTML and XHTML Element Reference" respectively, on every single page! The page footers in this section are completely empty. This means that to find the tag you are looking for, you either have to go to the index (which is comprehensive) or open a page at random, skim that page until you find a tag, then estimate how many pages away the tag you are interested in is and then repeat. Even finding a tag on a page is made unnecessarily difficult by highlighting it only with a bold typeface this is used extensively throughout the pages for notes and subheadings.
Simply including within the header that tag that is under discussion could have made this book a much more valuable resource. However even with this change the book would still have problems. There seems to have been a laziness in the planning of this book, with some material introduced in an unpedagogical order.
There are 294 pages for the HTML tag reference, if you open the book anywhere within this reference section the left and right page headers have the text "Part I: Core Markup" and "Chapter 2: HTML and XHTML Element Reference" respectively, on every single page! The page footers in this section are completely empty. This means that to find the tag you are looking for, you either have to go to the index (which is comprehensive) or open a page at random, skim that page until you find a tag, then estimate how many pages away the tag you are interested in is and then repeat. Even finding a tag on a page is made unnecessarily difficult by highlighting it only with a bold typeface this is used extensively throughout the pages for notes and subheadings.
Simply including within the header that tag that is under discussion could have made this book a much more valuable resource. However even with this change the book would still have problems. There seems to have been a laziness in the planning of this book, with some material introduced in an unpedagogical order.
Format:Paperback
The book is ok for intermediate or pros, but not very comfortable for begginers. So if you are new to html and css avoid this one
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